Mariners Moose Tracks, 1/19/21: Joe Musgrove, Tyler Chatwood, and Jon Lester

In Mariners News...

• Congrats to Luis Liberato and Yohan Ramirez on their LIDOM championship win!

• With five prospects in Baseball America’s 2021 Top 100 MLB Prospects list, two of which rank in the top ten, the Mariners’ future continues to look bright.

Around The League...

• Hannah Keyser at Yahoo Sports wonders how the vaccine rollouts will affect MLB players and what the league’s distribution could look like.
• Free agent and former Cubs RHP Tyler Chatwood has agreed to a one-year/$3 million deal with the Blue Jays.
• Mets GM Jared Porter has acknowledged sending explicit images to female reporters when working for the Cubs.
• The Padres have acquired RHP Joe Musgrove from the Pirates in a three-team trade that sent Joey Lucchesi to the Mets and four prospects to Pittsburgh.
• Veteran LHP Jon Lester will be ending his exceptional six-year campaign in Chicago to join the Nationals on a one-year deal.
• Doug Glanville at ESPN writes an excellent piece about MLB’s need for diversity and why he is hesitant to pursue a GM position even though he is well qualified for one.